System and method of capturing, augmenting, and displaying images of a user from an onboard camera via a digital display device when an operatively coupled information handling system is inactive

Inventors: Francis Joseppee Pascual (Singapore, SG); Loo Shing Tan (Singapore, SG); Lei Guo (Singapore, SG)

Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS LP

G06F3/1462 G06F3/005 G06F3/0482 G06F2203/04803 G06F2203/04806

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Patent No.: US 12705011
App. No.: 19/192,007
Granted: Aug 11, 2026
Kind: B1

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Abstract

A digital display device including digital signal processing (DSP) hardware controller executing machine readable code instructions of a digital display device augmented mirror system comprising a display panel and an onboard camera. The DSP hardware controller detects absence of an incoming video data signal from an operatively coupled information handling system and receives user selection of an auxiliary mirror mode at the digital display device to display an on screen display (OSD) graphical user interface (GUI) for selection of user modes and to activate the onboard camera and display panel. The onboard camera captures a user image and provides it to the DSP hardware controller to render the user image for display on the display panel. The DSP hardware controller automatically switches to display images pursuant to the incoming video data signal when detected and received from the operatively coupled information handling system and ceases display of the user image.

Claims (57)

1 . A standalone digital display device executing machine readable code instructions of a digital display device augmented mirror system comprising:

a manual power button for the standalone digital display device to power on the standalone digital display device independently from an operatively coupled information handling system, and while the information handling system is powered down;

a digital signal processing (DSP) hardware controller to execute machine readable code instructions of a digital display device augmented mirror system to detect an absence of incoming graphics processing unit (GPU)-generated video data signal from the operatively-coupled information handling system;

the DSP hardware controller to execute machine readable code instructions to display an on screen display (OSD) graphical user interface (GUI) via a display panel, and activate an onboard camera and a display panel using a power management unit at the standalone digital display device for an auxiliary mirror mode operation of the digital display device;

an input physical control panel for receiving a user mode selection from a plurality of user modes displayed via the OSD GUI;

the stand-alone camera to capture a user image and provide the user image to the DSP hardware controller executing the machine readable code instructions of the digital display device augmented mirror system to render the user image for display on the display panel; and

the display panel to display the user image rendered by the DSP hardware controller.

2 . The standalone digital display device of claim 1 , wherein the user mode selection is a mirror image display to display the user image as captured by the onboard camera.

3 . The standalone digital display device of claim 1 , wherein the user mode selection is a mirror image display to display the user image in a reverse orientation from the user image captured by the onboard camera.

4 . The standalone digital display device of claim 1 , wherein the user mode selection is an enhanced image mode with heightened contrast and the DSP hardware processor renders the enhanced user image for display with the heightened contrast.

5 . The standalone digital display device of claim 1 , wherein the user mode selection is a ring light mode and the DSP hardware processor renders the user image for display in a smaller set of pixels on the display panel and illuminates a ring of pixels at the perimeter of the display panel to display white or natural colored light.

6 . The standalone digital display device of claim 1 , wherein the user mode selection is a zoomed image and the DSP hardware processor renders a sub-portion of the user image across the pixels of the display panel to increase resolution of the sub-portion of the user image and not display the remaining portions of the user image.

7 . The standalone digital display device of claim 1 , wherein the user mode selection is a picture-in-picture mode to display a screenshare image received from a smart device operatively coupled to the digital display device in addition to the user image captured at the onboard camera on the display panel.

8 . The standalone digital display device of claim 1 further comprising:

the DSP hardware controller to automatically switch to display images pursuant to the incoming GPU-generated video data signal received from the operatively coupled information handling system and cease display of the user image captured from the onboard camera.

9 . A standalone digital display device executing machine readable code instructions of a digital display device augmented mirror system comprising:

the DSP hardware controller receiving a user selection for initiating an auxiliary mirror mode of the digital display device;

the DSP hardware controller to execute machine readable code instructions to activate an onboard camera and a display panel using a power management unit at the standalone digital display device for an auxiliary mirror mode operation of the digital display device;

the onboard camera to capture a user image and provide the user image to the DSP hardware controller executing the machine readable code instructions of the digital display device augmented mirror system to render the user image for display on the display panel;

the display panel to display the user image rendered by the DSP hardware controller; and

the DSP hardware controller to execute machine readable code instructions of the digital display device augmented mirror system to detect receipt of the incoming GPU-generated video data signal from the operatively-coupled information handling system and to automatically switch to display images pursuant to the incoming GPU-generated video data signal received from the operatively coupled information handling system and cease display of the user image captured from the onboard camera.

10 . The standalone digital display device of claim 9 further comprising: